OK those of you who are well versed in the bugs. Last weekend on Pine Creek during the Quill Gordon Summit, I saw some Mayflies tht were huge. Yes there were March Browns and I can recognize them pretty well. But in the afternoon, fishing upstream of Blackwell, there were flies that were easily the size of Green Drakes!'cept they were brown. I tried to catch one but the wind was whippen' pretty good and the other JAMMERS were getting their fair share of fish, so I didn't want to get too outclassed in the fish department, so sorry no Photo. Looking thru "HATCHES II" I think it might be "Litobranchia recurvitia" or Dark Green Drake? Has anyone every seen this bug? Dang I wish I had a pic! Thanks in advance.

Posted on: 2012/4/25 6:53

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Hatches come and go of their own accord, but work will wait for you to get back.

I know of two streams that have a fishable Dark Green Drake hatch. When they hatch on these streams they easily get the attention the shadflies get. They seem to hatch about a week or so before the drakes so given the way the hatches are this year they are certainly a possible suspect.

Question seen a yellowish body mayfly today and it had a orangish to yellowish type ball hanging off its rear. Not sure what it was. I couldn't take pictures seen them flying around the prison yard so we are not allowed cameras. These mayflies were flying around the Juniata River at SCI Huntingdon. Again sorry for no pictures. And body was about 5/8ths of an inch to 3/4 of an inch.